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Mafias provide water and electricity to slumdwellers at a cost far higher than what wealthy Indians pay for basic services.
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So begins Frederico Varese's "Mafias on the Move."
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During his thirty-year dictatorship, Diaz controlled the traditional caudillos, feudal lords, to maintain authority in a system of power resembling, if not replicating, organized Mafias.
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Officials say that contrary to the Sicilian and Neapolitan Mafias, Ndrangheta informers are all but non-existent.
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Political Mafias Parties paid for by lobbyist and special interest groups to subvert the American dream?
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During his thirty-year dictatorship, Diaz controlled the traditional caudillos, feudal lords, to maintain authority in a system of power resembling, if not replicating, organized Mafias.
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Unlike some other societies, the Green Gang had embraced these criminals and organized their activities to a degree the Sicilian and American Mafias might well have envied.
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It could be placed on a plaque in any capital city of the Western World - except perhaps his birthplace, where the various Mafias rule the roost.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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So it is strange that while law can be used against writers like Ashis Nandy who put across their point of view, full-blooded Mafias who are active in many fields, can get away with murder.
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At Westminster, we are currently watching the absurdity of a Prime Minister's 'resignation' and another Prime Minister's 'coronation' being manipulated by political Mafias without even a nod in the direction of democracy.
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